OFF THE DEEP END: THE PROBABLY INSANE IDEA THAT I COULD SWIM MY WAY THROUGH A MIDLIFE CRISIS - AND QUALIFY FOR THE OLYMPICS
Book ID/图书代码： 14560008B21915
English Summary/英文概要： Hodding Carter dreamed of being an Olympian as a kid. He worshipped Mark Spitz, swam his heart out, and just missed qualifying for the Olympic trials in swimming as a college senior. Although he didn’t qualify for the 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, or 2004 Olympics, he never stopped believing he could make it. And despite past failures and the passage of time, Carter began his quest once more at the age of forty-two.
Maybe he’s crazy. But then again, maybe he’s onto something. He entered the Masters Championships. He swam three to four miles each day, six days a week. He pumped iron, trained with former Olympians, and consulted with swimming gurus and medical researchers who taught him that the body doesn’t have to age. He swam with sharks (inadvertently) in the Virgin Islands, suffered hypothermia in a relay around Manhattan, and put on fifteen pounds of muscle. Amazingly, he discovered that his heartbeat could keep pace with the best of the younger swimmers’. And each day he felt stronger, swam faster, and became more convinced that he wasn’t crazy.
This outrageous, courageous chronicle is much more than Carter’s race with time to make it to the Olympics. It’s the exhilarating story of a man who rebels against middle age the only way he can—by chasing a dream. His article in Outside magazine, on which this book is based, was the winner of a Lowell Thomas award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 成为奥运选手是霍丁·卡特自儿时的梦想。马克·斯皮茨是他的偶像。他竭尽全力练习游泳，却还是与奥运会失之交臂。尽管自1976年到2004年的每届奥运会他都不够资格，他仍然坚信总有一天会梦想成真。面对过去的失败和时光的流逝，卡特并不灰心。在他42岁的时候，他再一次朝着他的奥运梦努力。
也许他是疯狂的，但他在追逐梦想。他参加大师赛。每天游3至4公里，一星期游6天。他坚持做重量练习，与退役奥运选手一起训练。他咨询过游泳专家和医学专家，得知身体机能不一定会随着年纪增大而退化。他在维尔京群岛与鲨鱼同游，在进行绕曼哈顿的接力赛时正受着体温过低的折磨。他增加了15磅的肌肉。令人惊奇的是，他发现他的心跳可与最棒的年轻选手同步。每天，他都感觉到自己在变得更强壮，游得更快。因此他更加坚信自己不是一时疯狂。
这本书不只是卡特争分夺秒为参加奥运做准备的记录。这还是一个振奋人心的故事，故事的主人公尽力追逐他的梦想，以此来打破年龄的限制和阻碍。他刊登在《户外杂志》上的文章，即本书的雏形，荣获了由美国旅游作家基金学会颁发的洛厄尔•托马斯奖。
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About the Author/作者介绍： W. Hodding Carter was an NCAA Division III All-American and a national champion on his college swim team. He is a contributing writer for Outside magazine, has written for Esquire and Gourmet, and is the author of five previous books of nonfiction.
W．霍丁·卡特曾是全国大学生体育协会第三分队的明星队员，也曾获得全国冠军。他现为《户外杂志》的特约撰稿人。为《时尚先生》和《美食家》写稿。曾创作五部非小说作品。
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